Sex offender, Kan. talent scout accused of rape

This photo provided by the Butler County, Mo., sheriff's Office shows Robert Lile of Osawatomie, Kan. Lile, a convicted rapist who co-founded a Kansas talent agency after spending 20 years in prison and challenging the state’s sex offender rehab program before the U.S. Supreme Court is now accused of raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint in a Tennessee hotel. He waived extradition Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 during a hearing in Bates County, Mo., and is awaiting extradition to Tenn. (AP Photo/Butler County Sheriff)
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This photo provided by the Butler County, Mo., sheriff's Office shows Robert Lile of Osawatomie, Kan. Lile, a convicted rapist who co-founded a Kansas talent agency after spending 20 years in prison and challenging the state’s sex offender rehab program before the U.S. Supreme Court is now accused of raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint in a Tennessee hotel. He waived extradition Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013 during a hearing in Bates County, Mo., and is awaiting extradition to Tenn. (AP Photo/Butler County Sheriff)
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"I'm disappointed it played out this way for the girl and her family, but this doesn't surprise me," said Stephen McAllister, a University of Kansas law professor who argued the state's case in late 2001 before the Supreme Court. "He was completely unrepentant from his previous conviction."

McAllister said Lile refused to admit he had done anything wrong, which was the basis for the Supreme Court case because the state required convicted sexual predators to accept responsibility for their actions.

Lile's name does not appear on any state or national sex offender registries because his conviction came before those offender lists were created, said Kyle Smith, spokesman for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

Smith said the Kansas sex offender registration law took effect in 1993. It wasn't made public until the next year, after a college student was raped and murdered by a co-worker who was on parole after serving 10 years for raping another college student.

The state unsuccessfully tried to make Kansas' sex offender registry retroactive so it would include people convicted of sex crimes before 1994. But the Kansas Supreme Court ruled against the state.